Tommy
--On Saturday, November 23, 2002 8:17 AM -0500 "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@redhat.com> wrote:
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Tommy McNeely wrote:Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 16:32:34 -0700 From: Tommy McNeely <Tommy.McNeely@Sun.COM> To: psyche-list@redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed List-Id: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Psyche) <psyche-list.redhat.com> Subject: sbin and /usr/sbin in /etc/profile, I have had to comment out the "if" and "fi" lines to make the "sbin" paths automatically be part of a "users" path.. (like for traceroute)... why do I have to do this?? # Path manipulation # if [ `id -u` = 0 ]; then pathmunge /sbin pathmunge /usr/sbin pathmunge /usr/local/sbin # fi just cause its in the sbin path does not mean that only root can run it... sbin is for "static-binaries" right??/sbin and /usr/sbin have never been part of a user's path in traditional Unix and Linux systems. While some distributions may possibly put these directories in users paths by default, it is by no means a standard. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer XFree86 maintainer Red Hat Inc. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
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